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Vol. 13 Special Issue | Integrated Care
Ten Key Principles for Successful Health Systems Integration
Esther Suter, Nelly D. Oelke, Carol E. Adair and Gail D. Armitage
These principles define key areas for restructuring and allow organizational flexibility and adaptation to local context.
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Vol. 12 Special Issue | Patient Safety Papers
Implementation of Admission Medication Reconciliation at Two Academic Health Sciences Centres: Challenges and Success Factors
Maitreya Coffey, Patricia Cornish, Tessie Koonthanam, Edward Etchells and Anne Matlow
The authors describe implementation of admission medication reconciliation at two academic health sciences centres. Common challenges included the multistep, inter-professional nature of Med Rec, staffing resource and workload concerns and frequent ...
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Vol. 12 Special Issue | Ontario’s Wait Time Information System
Deploying Ontario's Wait Time Information System
Hugh MacLeod, Alan Hudson, Sarah Kramer and Murray Martin
Developed and deployed in just two years, Ontario's new Wait Time Information System has made the province a leader in providing open access to wait times and made significant contributions towards the transformation of healthcare in Ontario.
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Vol. 11 Special Issue | Patient Safety Papers
Effectiveness of an Adapted SBAR Communication Tool for a Rehabilitation Setting
Karima Velji, G. Ross Baker, Carol Fancott, Angie Andreoli, Nancy Boaro, Gaétan Tardif, Elaine Aimone and Lynne Sinclair
This study evaluated the effectiveness of an adapted SBAR tool for both urgent and non-urgent situations within a rehabilitation setting.
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Vol. 10 Special Issue | Change: The Challenge of CPOE
Transforming Healthcare Organizations
Brian Golden
This article, based on the experiences of a multi-site hospital, and drawing on past research on organizational change, provides a Four-Stage model to help change leaders in healthcare.
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Vol. 9 Special Issue | Patient Safety Papers
Frequency and Type of Medication Discrepancies in One Tertiary Care Hospital
Jennifer Turple, Neil J. MacKinnon and Bryan Davis
Safety of the medication use system is an issue for many healthcare organizations today. This problem was clearly identified in the Institute of Medicine's report To Err Is Human.
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Vol. 8 Special Issue | Patient Safety Papers
Enhance a Culture of Patient Safety and Assess the Risks of Medication Use Systems
Julie Greenall, David U and Robert Lam
One strategy for addressing adverse events involving medication use is to utilize a systems approach to patient safety rather than focusing on individual performance.
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Vol. 8 Special Issue | Strategic Partnerships
Strategic Levers for a High-Performing Health System
Louise Lemieux-Charles
This special issue of Healthcare Papers brings together most of the Strategic Levers symposium proceedings.
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Vol. 7 Special Issue | Healthy Workplaces
Getting Healthy Work Environments in Health Workplaces
Linda Silas
Unhealthy work environments result in unhealthy workers and reduced health outcomes for patients. This commentary focuses on getting real change in the workplace, changes that workers and patients will talk about.
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Vol. 5 No. 2 2004 | Mental Health in the Workplace
Mental Health and the Workplace: Towards a Research Agenda in Canada
Alain Lesage, Carolyn S. Dewa, Jean-Yves Savoie, Rémi Quirion, John Frank
Mental and emotional health problems promise to take a heavy toll on the workplace in the form of work absences and decreased productivity
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Vol. 5 Special Issue | Primary Healthcare Information System
The Development of a Primary Healthcare Information System
Diane E. Watson
In this special issue of Healthcare Policy/Politiques de Santé, we share lessons from establishing a population-based information system to describe the primary healthcare sector from temporal, geographic, population and provider perspectives.
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Vol. 3 Special Issue | Regional Training Centres
To Boldly Go: A Partnership Enterprise
Patricia Conrad
The funders' "blueprint" for the RTCs, plus the logic model that guided the fourth-year review.
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The Pulse of Renewal
The Pulse of Renewal: A Focus on Nursing Human Resources
The Pulse of Renewal: A Focus on Nursing Human Resources is a report of work commissioned by Health Canada's Office of Nursing Policy and is focused on strategies for augmenting and enhancing nursing human resources. The research covers a diverse spectrum
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